Tightheads & Loose Balls

● Asked on social media what God’s plan was for gay people, the Wallabies Israel Folau took the gap this week. “Hell… Unless they repent of their sins and turn to God.” It has left the ARU some explaining to do especially as one of their sponsors, Qantas, is already under pressure following the Australian cricket team’s ball-tampering fiasco.

● Ulster’s Craig Gilroy has apologised “unreservedly“for a WhatsApp message he sent which was used in the rape trial of teammates Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding. In it he wrote: “Any s---- get f-----?“To which Olding replied: "Precious secrets." Gilroy is now the subject of an internal review.

● Lions’ centre Rohan Janse van Rensburg goes by the moniker

“Trokkie“( Little Truck), presumably because of his bulging dimensions in a concentrated area. Asked about the player’s injury this week a member of the Lions management said: “He’s got a ‘lammie’ (haematoma) on his upper leg. On the bonnet of the trokkie.”